The Importance Of The Travel Ban

President Trump’s travel ban is a very strategic move by his administration towards taking larger steps in the prevention of terrorism in the United States. Although, I have some doubts about the rationale behind the ban. While the travel ban is said to not target Muslims, the

The Travel Ban marks a major turning point in the policies on immigration in the United States. Due to increased terrorist attacks and illegal immigrant numbers rising, it is believed that temporarily banning immigrants from particular countries is key to ensuring safety within the United States. Though many have expressed their concern towards the ban because of its similarity to previous discriminatory and unconstitutional acts. The ban has even been referred to as the “Muslim Ban”.

Like many, I consider this “travel ban” an attempt to discriminate against Muslims and deem it unconstitutional for targeting a specific religious group, for violating the equal protection rights of noncitizens, and because it ultimately will do more harm than the “good” Trump promises. This executive order violates the First Amendment's Establishment Clause by giving preference to one religion over another. Several times over, Trump verbalized that he would prioritize resettlement of Christian refugees, while making it nearly impossible for everyone else (non-Christians) to enter the United States (Delaney, 2017). In the Constitution, part of the Establishment Clause found in the

The travel ban that President Trump is trying to impose is necessary for national security. The Executive Order 9066 of 1946 did the same thing when they banned all Japanese and made them move to internment camps because “Envy over economic success combined with distrust over cultural separateness and long-standing anti-Asian racism turned into disaster when the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941” (“Executive” n.d). Also when there are terrorist attacks like the Boston Marathon bombings the national security is very important to be put into place. “We’ll find out who did this. We’ll find out why they did this. Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice.” (“Boston marathon,” 2013). Events like this make the national security to be the first priority and become even stronger. However, opponents argue that national security has nothing to do with this ban.

Our country is continuously wrought with terrorist attacks by foreign-born migrants and radicalized U.S. born citizens. This causes national security issues to remain at the forefront of the news and political debates. The federal government holds the responsibility to protect our nation from those who seek to harm us. As a result, the Trump administration enacted a travel ban to counteract the issue of foreign-born migrants; who are potentially not screened properly by foreign governments. The travel ban is a controversial national security policy which began with Executive Order 13769, resulting in multiple legal battles, and legislative action should be taken.

Citizens who agree with Donald Trump’s travel ban order say that they feel better and safer since this ban was announced. They say that immigrants are not welcome to enter the United States. They believe that immigrants who are escaping death in their countries are entering the United States to do “terror” attacks. A U.S. political polling editor at Thomson Reuters, Chris Khan, mention in his article, a couple of questions that were asked to people in the United States. One of the questions was, "What comes closer to your opinion? Because of Trump 's travel ban, I feel more safe / less safe." About 30% of the answers were “I feel more safe” And about 25% “I feel less safe” and the others had no response. Most people in the United States have some negative feelings about refugees coming from overseas after the attack of 9/11. Some Republicans say that they would feel safer if there were no Muslims entering the United States. “Banning people from Muslim countries is necessary to prevent terrorism” (Khan).

Our newest president, Donald Trump, signed an executive order that keeps visa holders, refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. These countries are Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia. Immigrants from those countries will be banned for 90 days, refugees for 120, and anyone from Syria has been indefinitely banned. There could be some exceptions on a case-by-case basis. This executive order was signed on Friday, January 27, 2017, and effects people whose nationality is one of those seven countries. Team Trump apparently did not run this by officials at the Justice Department. Trump’s purpose for the halt is to give government agencies time to come up with a better, stricter system and to make sure that individuals who are a potential threat to national security do not obtain visas. White House officials say the seven counties targeted had already been said to be a concern for terrorism. There have been no people accepted to the United States as a refugee that have been involved in a major fatal terrorist attack since the Refugee Act of 1980. There have been riots in airports and those seven countries to protest this ban. Air passengers were prevented from boarding flights to the United States. However, on February 3, 2017, a federal judge suspended significant parts of the executive order. Trump is not happy with this so the United States government put an emergency request to

I believe that Trump shouldn’t have the right to suspend anyone from entering the US, unless they have done anything to harm our country. Not everyone in those countries (that were listed) are terrorist, and want to

In my opinion based on the whole Trump travel ban, I think that it is wrong to ban a certain religion. I mean as of now, they changed the travel ban about so many times and now it is only letting people in United States if they have close family members, but i feel like it will not work. There are many people coming here to the United States and have the dream to live here and have a better life for their family but the government's just barring them from entering here. And now they're trying to eliminate legal immigration for new people trying to enter here and it could create more chaos which 2 senators are trying to create. How would you know a person's religion when they check at the airport? That is just wrong towards that type of people

According to Rod Dreher, the author of, “True Things About the Trump Immigration Ban,” it stated that Trump only wanted to reduce the future harm that might occur in the U.S. Also making the immigrant's policy more rigorous so it can vet out terrorism (Dreher). The justification for the order is well thought out and important to ensure the safety of a nation, but the president can not degrade or persecute an entire religion that is falsely associated with terrorism. If there were data on the seven Muslim-majority countries that corresponded with them being related to terrorism than it would have been justified. This executive order established by Trump would have made the nation more secure if it was not directly discriminating and disfavoring an entire

One of the main topics of discussion in the news today is the issue of Immigration. This has been a major issue for the last couple of months since the chain of command has changed. One of the first ex. order was concerning immigration that have been going on table debates back and forth from seven countries that have been under investigation for certain radical activities by the Obama Administration. President Obama issued an ex. order banning travel to and from these countries, but at the same time there are a lot of people whom live in the United States that has families who resides in these particular countries and will not be able to visit them because of the ban order. The premise of this order was that by stopping/banning travel

Trump’s Executive Order 13769 prohibit Syrian refugees and lawful immigrants coming from the seven Muslim countries has caused chaos throughout our nation. Immigrants with lawful visas were detained on their travel to the US while the flights were cancelled for those who strived to fly to America. Under the Constitution and laws, this Executive Order is unconstitutional. While it is true that foreign nationals involved in the 9/11 attack, the Executive Order targeted countries that have not killed a single American. As a matter of fact, the ones that involved in the 9/11 attack were 15 people from Sudis, 2 United Arab Emirates men, 1 from Egypt, and 1 from Lebanon (Roosevelt). Strangely enough, Trump banned the countries in which he doesn’t have economic relationship with; however, the countries that have business links to Trump are excluded from the immigration ban list (Hincks). Because of this, the Executive Order doesn’t necessarily abate terrorist threats, for Trump choose the wrong countries to put on his ban list. The Order violated the fifth amendment by “targeting individuals for discriminatory treatment based on their country of origin and/or religion, without lawful justification,” as stated in the US Constitution

The travel ban is an executive order which was put into place by President Donald Trump’s administration on January 27th, 2017. The order was put into place for our national security to “protect the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States.” This measure banned travel into the U.S. for 90 days from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. This obviously sparked an outcry from social media, which caused a divide among Americans. With a show of hands, how many of you think that the travel ban is actually a ban on Muslim refugees and that it is racist. Recent polls show that 57% of Americans favor the temporary ban while 33% are opposed to it, and 10% are still undecided. Racism, fascism, and Islamophobia; these words have all taunted supporters of President Trump and the travel ban. The one thing people don’t realize is that the travel ban isn’t banning Muslims from America. Who in the room can name the top 5 countries with the most Muslims. They are Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria. Not one of these countries are listed in the ban. This ban is only for only ninety days, and is aimed at countries who have sent a large contingency of terrorists to the U.S. The countries selected have active terrorist training camps, and Trump is not the individual who selected the countries on the list. These countries are unstable, with no reliable vetting procedures. We shouldn’t admit people until they can meet our security screening standards.

Global insecurity is one of the global forces affecting the US economy and its causing a lot of controversy within the political environment. In recent years wars, threats and violations of human rights have increase the number of people migrating from their homes (Altemeyer-Bartscher, Holtemöller,…& 2016) Due to everything that is going on around the globe like terrorist attacks in Paris and London and the war in Syria among many others are making people travel to mainly the United States. The white house and current president is not very happy about migration from other countries and this is the cause for all of these bans that are causing a lot of arguments in the political environment. Economy wise currently apparently our economy is improving

On Facebook, I sought out opinions on this social justice issue by searching through public postings for the hashtags #travelban, #muslimban, #nobannowall, #refugees, #Americafirst, and #buildthewall. The vast majority of views presented by those using these hashtags were against the ban. One common theme held by those against the ban is that it was discriminatory. By adding Venezuela and North Korea to the list, the social media opinion is that Trump is trying to distract from it being a racist ban targeting Muslims. For example, Aram Shahinfard (2017) states in his Facebook update, “So he added a few more countries to make it a not-muslim ban? It is still not acceptable!” His Facebook friend,